Wednesday, March 12, 2008

It hit me last night after I thought about Geraldine Ferraro's appalling comments: Hillary Clinton's emphasis on "a hiringdecision" as a metaphor for the election now seems to have been a preparation for an increasingly overt effort to cast Barack Obama as an affirmative-action applicant and thereby draw upon the presumed resentments of economically hard-pressed white voters. Here's a job: are you gonna let the black guy take it away?

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how can she not care more for the overall strength of her party in the election than for her individual effort to be the candidate in that election? attacking obama in ways that will hurt him in the general election should he win the nomination (e.g., saying that mccain is better than obama on terrorism, fanning subtly the fears that obama might be muslim, etc.), suggests that there is something more important than party platform to clinton: career. this does not stand flatteringly next to the pope of hope.

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